That's terrifying for showing how little he understands about the problem he is attempting to solve.
Humans use up to four senses at times to accomplish the task of driving.
Chris Ely
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IT enthusiast. TV addict. A systems admin / tinkerer, who is also curious about development, network and security fields.
I created this account on leap day 2020, but I didn't use it nearly this much before Twitter was purchased.
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Installing from F-Droid prevents sales like this from causing silent "upgrades" to advertising-infested versions.
Doesn't the (government?) site that provided the token learn which site it was for when that site requested the token be verified?
For Signal, they will know when and how often you receive Signal messages.
Notifications are used to "activate" the app on your device. Then it will connect to Signal servers and download the encrypted messages.
After the software on your device decrypted the message, then it has the sender details and message content.
There are settings to control how much of that information is used when creating the local notification. Because other apps might log notifications.
It's both amazing and annoying that Google is perfectly able to create useful apps for iOS (despite the huge limitations the OS imposes) but Apple can't figure out how to make any Android app that isn't utter crap with fewer restrictions imposed on them.
What kind of openness are you hoping for? Google has built their solution with a bunch of already open pieces.
RCS + Signal protocol + MLS
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messages-mls-3346918/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23801536/google-messages-app-mls-support-announce
You can pull new images while the old ones continue running happily. That docker-compose down command is completely unnecessary.
Why don't you ask the Matrix team why they decided to re-invent XMPP and add a stupid HTTP API?
Don't negotiate with or give in to terrorists!
There are all kinds of useful named things to learn about.
Try out any of these:
- Session @session
- SimpleX @simplex
- Threema @threemaapp
They all don't require a phone number, which makes them immediately better than Signal, for devices that don't have a SIM.
Lemmy & KBin & Mastodon & Misskey & Calckey & others all use the ActivityPub protocol to deliver posts to your inbox no matter which account / software created the post in the first place.
How the posts are interpreted changes a bit depending on what software was used to create and display your inbox.
This is very much like how email works in Outlook & Gmail, but how the labels or tagging changes depending on which you use.
Try this video:
Eventually, the list of things Samsung doesn't make is going to be shorter.
I just tried it. Twitter won't let me view pages without an account. What do you mean exactly?
It is excellent! I wish more people would use this great feature more often.
Posting about the current events in Russia is easier if everyone has the choice to see it or not.
https://fosstodon.org/users/tcely/statuses/109423576478406730
There were two SMS mistakes by Signal:
Another good video is showing what things look like.
https://toot.jeena.net/users/jeena/statuses/110568555005254698
Accessing the keys from the server isn't really a mystery or hidden. It's technically possible for Apple to write software to query servers run by Google as well as any servers they created for themselves.
You don't need implementation source code when you have open standards already.
WhatsApp actually used Signal's development team to rollout the Signal protocol for them, but that app is still untrustworthy.
I'd argue the percentage wasn't small. The available population was Android users with SMS contacts.
Either way, it was an unforced error for the Signal leadership that gave away their competitive advantage in their home field to mainly Google and Facebook apps.
There is no way to convince me to go back to supporting Signal after that blunder. They destroyed my secure contacts network in less than two months after the announcement.
> How do they manage to make the same messages appear on multiple devices?
For a long time, they didn't.
I don't know for sure, but I expect it involves keys that multiple devices share. Any "linked" device would be able to download the encrypted copy and decrypt the message that way. Once any device has done that, it can send a copy to any other devices using the unique keys it knows for that device.
This link describes independent queues for devices: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/5532268300186-Disappearing-Messages-with-a-Linked-Device
That seems completely forgivable when compared to Florida and the men they keep electing governor of that state.
I suspect they mean it's not just continuing a project that protestors managed to get suspended after Chernobyl or Three-Mile Island or Fukushima.
A new project with a new reactor design that was actually seen through to the point of producing electricity has been more challenging in the USA than it should ever have been.
I can confirm. I have touched several of the computers sold before 1990 in my lifetime.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS24cBZPc
To be fair, many people didn't use computers much, back then.
> I would argue that bad experiences aren’t due to trains but due to poor investment and management.
I agree. I used trains to get to school as a commuter.
Nothing makes a train more unusable than not knowing when it will arrive at the destination (it was sometimes hours late) or if it will show up at all (the schedule was constantly changing, and some trains would just be cancelled when equipment was broken).
Here are the links to the documentation for these standards:
MLS - https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/documents/
Signal Protocol - https://www.signal.org/docs/
RCS - https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/rcs/universal-profile/ & https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/resources/rcs-up-2-4-uni/
This video covers most of your questions.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qxAnWYUvDxg
Alternative 🔗:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qxAnWYUvDxg
https://piped.video/watch?v=qxAnWYUvDxg
Google and Samsung were the only apps to implement RCS (and the infrastructure to support the app) so far.
Nothing Google has done prevents any other organizations that want to invest the time and money from also implementing the standard.
https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/rcs/universal-profile/
Apple, on the other hand, doesn't allow iMessage apps or servers that they didn't create themselves. Or even an SMS/RCS app on their devices.
RCS has always been an open standard.
Only Google has done the work to implement it for billions of devices, so far.
That has never prevented Apple from also implementing the standard on their devices.
> Technically we are federated, so why do Mastodonians interact so little with the Threadiverse?
I have a much simpler answer to this. Kbin doesn't allow me to follow (or even view) a lot of the content. Lemmy does better at this.
To be useful, I need to be able to follow magazines / communities without resorting to a web browser that doesn't have my account (and often won't show me the content).
The up voting mapping needs to be consistent too!
> Signal stores all your messages and media as well, the difference is they encrypt it on their servers.
What evidence do you have to support this claim?
The last time I looked into this, messages and media were only stored encrypted on servers until they were retrieved or expired.
After that, the local device is where things are stored.
Thanks for this.
Please update with the gist link from @christianselig too.
https://gist.github.com/christianselig/449b0bd374167ff7335fab2b823120ef
I understand the point you were trying to make. You're just wrong, in my opinion.
You are also focusing on the wrong software.
Mastodon, as the place most people start with ActivityPub software, absolutely should be able to view other types of content.
The important point is to not force anyone to view that content or display it particularly badly.
When all I know about Kbin is that it doesn't work with my Mastodon account, why exactly do I use it?
You can type any instance you like into that field. A lot of people were confused by a drop-down that also lets you enter text. You are not alone.
I've used it, you can only view one account at a time. It's a bit like profiles on your streaming service. It doesn't merge things.
I really want X.org to challenge this move in court and win!
@mastermind